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New neighbourhoods being developed as Beaulieu grows would be able to directly access the RDR and therefore benefit from it.

Phase one of the RDR plans has already been undertaken by Bellway Homes, providing a road link to the Beaulieu boundary via the Channels residential development.

Countryside Zest are to deliver the second and third phases, which will include a new bridge over the Great Eastern Mainline.

The current application refers to plans for the erection of a bridge which will connect Hanson Roundabout with the Generals Lane Roundabout at the Boreham Interchange.

The proposed relief road

The bridge, which would span over the railway and the A12 slip roads, is hoped to deliver the required infrastructure needed to provide access to planned housing as well as social and community facilities.

If plans are given the go-ahead, the carriageway would be 7.3 metres wide, compromise a three metre wide footpath and cycleway and a steel frame bridge, which in turn would include concrete parapet walls reaching to a maximum height of 14 metres.

The development would not impact plans for the delivery of the North East Chelmsford bypass as an area of land has already been safeguarded.

A section of the bypass corridor passes through the Beaulieu site, immediately east of the RDR route and will eventually connect to it.

A general view of the Boreham Interchange

Countryside Zest have engaged with Essex County Council to ensure that emerging designs for both the RDR and the bypass scheme will be co-ordinated.

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Andrew Carrington, Managing Director, Strategic Land for Countryside said: “Following the detailed planning consent for our first phase of the new relief road, we have now submitted two further detailed planning applications for the remainder of the relief road, which forms part of our wider development plans for Beaulieu.

Andrew Carrington from Countryside

“Providing a more convenient link between the A130 and junction 19 of the A12, the new relief road will not only benefit those living and working at Beaulieu, but also the wider community, helping to take traffic away from areas that are currently experiencing congestion at certain periods of the day and connecting the A12 with routes to Braintree, Stansted and the M11.

“The plans also include a new bridge over the A12 and railway line which will ultimately provide access to the proposed new Beaulieu Railway Station."

Mr Carrington also confirmed that work on the first phase of the relief road is expected to begin early in 2019